Essential SharePoint® 2007 focuses on utilizing Microsoft Office

SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making,

streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems.

Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the

crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint

deployment—showing exactly how to maximize business value and

reduce project risk.

Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors walk you through

planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around the

unique needs of your business. Next, they address the operational support

and end-user functionality needed to make SharePoint 2007 work—with

special attention given to the organizational and political issues that can

make or break your project. Learn how to:

• Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies

• Build SharePoint applications people want to use

• Architect SharePoint infrastructure for superior performance, reliability, and value. Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis

• Use SharePoint content management to integrate documents, records, and Web content, and make it all searchable

• Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process 

• Quickly build business intelligence solutions using Web-base dashboards and server-based Excel Services

• Organize and staff SharePoint support teams

• Migrate efficiently from SharePoint 2003

Whether you're a project manager, consultant, analyst, line-of-business executive, or developer, this book helps you align your SharePoint project with your business strategy - and deliver quantifiable results fast.

Preface

Chapter 1 Your Collaboration Strategy: Ensuring Success

Chapter 2 Office SharePoint Server 2007: High-Impact Collaboration

Across the Extended Enterprise

Chapter 3 Introduction to the 2007 Office System as a Collaboration

and Solutions Platform

Chapter 4 SharePoint Architecture Fundamentals

Chapter 5 Planning Your Information Architecture

Chapter 6 Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2003 to 2007:

Upgrade or Rebuild?

Chapter 7 Disaster Recovery Planning

Chapter 9 Enterprise Content Management: Documents,

Records, and Web

Chapter 10 Enterprise Search

Chapter 11 Making Business Processes Work: Workflow and Forms

Chapter 12 Office 2007: Offline Options for MOSS 2007

Chapter 13 Providing Business Intelligence

Appendix A SharePoint User Tasks

Appendix B OS/Browser/Office Compatibility

Index

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 10 Ratings

A SharePoint book for the end user, and their managers. - 2007-10-18
Reviewer Rating:
Unlike most SP books out there at the moment, isn't all about how to install, set-up, administer, and write custom code for a SP deployment. It's much more aimed at end users, and people who need to plan a collaboration strategy around a shared knowledge base.

While a lot of it is management-theoretical in the first few chapters, it's sensible advice that gets one to think about things that are necessary to address, but wouldn't automatically have come to mind. The central message of "the 4 Cs" communication, collaboration, consolidation, and consistency help one to both recognize what's good, and also how to get there.

I think that chapters 1-3 are required reading for anyone in a human management role who will be involved with rolling out SharePoint as a collaboration tool.

Chapters 4-7 are more aimed at admins, so I skipped them.

Chapter 8 is great for individual site planning with "how to" and, more importantly "why to" and "when not to" advice on blogs, wikis, team sites, and their coherent integration.

The fastest payback for a reader comes in Appendix A which documents 24 things that a SP user needs to know how to do, from adding a files to a document library, to targeting information visibility by audience type.

Great SharePoint book for Architects and Business Analysts - 2007-09-03
Reviewer Rating:
Essential SharePoint 2007 provides amazing guidance on how to architect your site. This book starts with high level concepts that any team implementing a collaboration solution should know. Although there is not a lot of detail on how to customize SharePoint with the object model or through code, this a great book for Business Analysts and Architects looking to improve their skills as well as junior developers wanting to understand how to build a system correctly. If you design and build SharePoint sites and have not read this book, I would recommend reading it. Keep in mind this book is not about developing on SharePoint, as the book points out - this book discusses higher level topics and shows how to interact with SharePoint through the user interface.

An excellent book to start your SharePoint journey... - 2009-03-29
Reviewer Rating:
When you're making a jump to SharePoint from some other platform (especially a non-Microsoft offering), the sheer size of the package can be daunting. And being dumped into the bits and bytes of SharePoint doesn't help much when you don't have any context for most of it. Essential SharePoint 2007 by Scott Jamison, Mauro Cardarelli, and Susan Handley was the perfect "first book" for me to get my mind wrapped around all that is SharePoint. It's also perfect for the higher level technical user who wants to do more than just the basics.

Contents:
Your Collaboration Strategy - Ensuring Success; Office SharePoint Server 2007 - High-Impact Collaboration Across the Extended Enterprise; Introduction to the 2007 Office System as a Collaboration and Solution Platform; SharePoint Architecture Fundamentals; Planning Your Information Architecture; Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2003 to 2007 - Upgrade or Build?; Disaster Recovery Planning; Sites, Blogs, and Wikis; Enterprise Content Management - Documents, Records, and Web; Enterprise Search; Making Business Processes Work - Workflow and Forms; Office 2007 - Offline Options for MOSS 2007; Providing Business Intelligence; Appendix A - SharePoint User Tasks; Appendix B - OS/Browser/Office Compatibility; Index

I'm switching from developing applications in the Notes/Domino platform to doing the same in SharePoint. But where Notes/Domino is somewhat self-contained, SharePoint has a ton of moving parts (Office, WSS, MOSS, SQL Server, etc.) As such I was having a hard time trying to figure out how to group everything in my mind. Essential SharePoint 2007 turned out to be the perfect way to start my journey. The authors write their material towards technical architects and business analysts who will need to know how to set up and use SharePoint to accomplish their many processes. The specifics of how to use certain features and web parts are detailed enough that you could use it as a first line of training for those who want to do more than just look at pages. The chapters on architecture, disaster recovery, and rolling out SharePoint are perfect for your administration and architecture staff who will have to become responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure. There are also chapters comparing SharePoint 2003 to the latest version (2007), but if you're familiar with 2003, you might well already have a grasp on much of the material. Fortunately for me, I'm starting with 2007, so migration is not a consideration...

While this wouldn't be the only SharePoint book on my shelf, it definitely needs to be there. It won't teach me how to program and customize SharePoint at the level I'll need to be able to down the road. But for getting a good grasp of the overall fundamentals of setup, administration, and use of SharePoint, it's hard to beat.

Great guide for designing, building, implementing and supporting your portal solution - 2008-07-14
Reviewer Rating:
This book provides a great overview of most of the features and functionality you will need to implement a portal solution using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It not only discusses the features of SharePoint but it provides great tips and techniques on issues like planning, migrating, creating and governing your portal solution. In addition, it has some good how to sections which walks the reader through the implementation of certain features of the product.

For experienced users - 2009-08-18
Reviewer Rating:
This book is geared to the experienced user, perhaps system administrators who will be establishing and maintaining sharepoint sites for a group of endusers. Useful, but some experience and knowledge is a huge help.

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